PRESS RELEASE
Hamazkayin, Armenian Cultural & Educational Society
“Hovhannes Shiraz” Los Angeles Chapter
Contact: Hagop Ovayan
1203 North Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Tel: (818) 249-7469
E-mail: ovayanhagop@netscape.net
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, May 9, 2005
The Enhancement of Armenia-Diaspora Relations as a Way of Addressing the Challenges Facing the Armenian Nation
Hollywood, CA – The community is invited to a public lecture/discussion by Armen Ayvazyan, PhD in political science and history, titled “The Enhancement of Armenia-Diaspora Relations as a Way of Addressing the Challenges Facing the Armenian Nation” on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at 8pm, at Saint Garabed Armenian Apostolic Church Hall, located at 1615 North Alexandria Avenue in the City of Los Angeles, California. The speaker’s lecture will view qualitative improvement of Armenia-Diaspora relations as a major way to addressing the current challenges of the Armenian nation, including the perspectives for the settlement of Nagorno-Karabagh conflict, the Armenian-Turkish and Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, the problem of Javakhk, and the demographic and social-economic situation of Armenia. The lecture is open to the public.
Dr. Armen Ayvazyan is a Senior Researcher in the Matenadaran, the Yerevan Institute of Medieval Manuscripts and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University of Armenia. He is also the Team Leader of the European Commission’s sponsored Campaign Against “Corruption-Freindly” Legal and Social Settings in Armenia program. He holds doctoral degrees in History (1992) and Political Science (2004). From 1992 to 1994 he worked as Assistant to the President of Armenia, Adviser to the Foreign Minister of Armenia, and Acting Head of the Armenian Delegation to the Conference (now Organization) on Security and Cooperation in Europe at Vienna. He was a recipient of an International Security Studies grant provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, working in affiliation with the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University (1995). During the 1997-1998 academic year, he was a Visiting Senior Fulbright Scholar, affiliated with the Center for Russian and East European Studies, Stanford University, USA. He was a Visiting Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Fellow at ELIAMEP, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (2000-2001). Dr. Ayvazyan was also a Fellow at the American University of Armenia’s Center for Policy Analysis and a Guest Lecturer at the Yerevan State University. Dr. Ayvazyan is the author of several books, book chapters, and many articles in Armenian and international journals.
While visiting the United States, Dr. Armen Ayvazyan has been scheduled to appear on numerous media programs and series of lectures. For further information, please contact the organizing commitee: Hamazkayin, Armenian Cultural & Educational Society “Hovhannes Shiraz” Los Angeles Chapter and Hollywood ANC at (818) 249-7469.
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